"Sixth Aunt, you watch over the fire. Mother Yu and I will go outside to fetch water. I'll leave this place to you."
The two kitchen maids walked out together. The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and no one wanted to be involved in the job of making fire.
If you sit in front of the stove for a while, you will be drenched in sweat. Your clothes will keep getting wet and dry, dry and wet, and never get clean all day long.
In the past, everyone took turns to be responsible, but now that Liu Po came, she said she was good at making fire, so naturally everything was handed over to her.
The Sixth Granny smiled, without a trace of dissatisfaction, "Okay, you guys go ahead, I'll be here for you."
The kitchen is busiest when preparing food, but it is quite idle at other times.
How could Liu Po not see that these two women were trying to slack off? They were both working people, so they knew what was going on!
But she didn't care, not because she had a good temper, but because she just needed to get rid of the person - wasn't this a coincidence?
Grandma Liu sat in front of the stove, slowly stirring the firewood. Because it was so hot, sweat streamed down her face like rain, and it was covered with black soot, making her look much slovenlier.
She casually reached out her hand and wiped the sweat off her face, then leaned over to look outside. Seeing that the two old women had indeed gone far away, she crouched down and came out from behind the stove.
The weather is getting hotter, so I prepare some mung bean soup every night. After it cools down, I add some sugar to it. Both adults and children love it.
At this time, a pot of mung bean soup was boiling, and the fire inside was burning vigorously. Liu Po stirred it for a while, and when she felt it was almost done, she took the pot of mung bean soup down and put the empty pot next to it on top.
She added some water from the side, took out a medicine bag from her arms, and quickly put it in.
The water in the pot began to boil, and black bubbles gurgled out. Although it was medicine, it smelled almost nothing. Its color looked a bit scary, as if it had been dug out of mud.
The two old women went far away and would not come back for an hour.
They were used to being lazy, and taking advantage of their status as elders in the mansion, they would say they had a headache or a fever when doing any heavy work, and would leave it all to the people around them.
It does make things easier for Liu Po to operate.
"Girl, hurry up, drink the medicine in one gulp while it's still hot!"
After Liu Po prepared the medicine, the maid beside Zhu Hong quickly took it and, following Liu Po's instructions, watched the two masters to make sure they drank the medicine in one gulp!
"Oh my god, this medicine is too hard to drink!" Liu Lu pinched her nose. She felt that the medicine smelled tasteless, but when she drank it, it was like eating smelly socks that had been rotten for several days. As soon as she closed her mouth, the taste went straight to her head.
vomit!
"Shut up! Don't spit it out!" Zhuhong covered her mouth. Even though she felt very nauseous and felt that the contents of her stomach were rising to her throat, she still held it back.
We can't fail here again!
The taste of this medicine is really overbearing. Even if you endure it, the taste seems to linger in your mouth, and even your breath smells like rotten food.
Tears welled up in Liulu's eyes, and she used up almost all her strength to prevent the urge to feel nauseous from coming up again.
She and Zhuhong each covered their mouths and slowly looked at each other - after suffering so much, this move could only succeed, not fail!
"Madam, this is medicine residue."
The people sent by Chunxi kept an eye on Liu Po. When she was dealing with the medicine residue, they followed behind and took it away.
Shen Ruoyan only took a look and said, "Send it to Doctor Xu and let him see what it is."
Liu Po cleaned everything very well, even washing the pot for boiling the medicine three times and drying it thoroughly. If you didn't look closely, you wouldn't be able to tell it had been used.
But what she didn't know was that someone was secretly watching her every move.
Just waiting for her to show her true colors!
The women in this courtyard can't see the sky, only the high walls and their husbands' faces. Every day, their thoughts are either vying for favor or on the road to vying for favor, placing all their wealth and hopes on the same man.
Chun Xi wrapped up the medicinal residue and sent it out. She couldn't help but sigh, "I'm afraid this mansion is going to be in turmoil again..."
The situation among the concubines would be quiet for a while at best, but before long, the competition would start again.
Listening to her sigh, Shen Ruoyan couldn't help but laugh: "Little girls, why are you frowning all day long? If they don't want to be quiet, then they won't be quiet. If the enemy comes, we will fight back. If the water comes, we will block it with earth."
When they were in the harem, the women fought even more fiercely.
But they are much smarter.
Any woman with a bit of brains in the harem will not indulge in love. Competing for favor is just a means for them to seize power. No one will bet her entire fortune on the emperor's favor.
A man's preferences change faster than the weather.
If I remain deeply in love with you today, I will be deeply in love with someone else tomorrow.
Especially the late emperor, he was simply a sentimental man. Lu Jing was very similar to him in some aspects, but the late emperor was more manly and more intelligent than him.
The favorite concubine in the palace is successful in the harem, so her mother's family must have been prosperous in the previous dynasty.
In the court, if a family has a capable son or a brave general, the women sent to the harem by their family will be favored.
The harem is indeed not allowed to interfere in politics, but the changes in the harem are closely related to the previous dynasty.
The emperor's heart was like a needle in the sea, impossible to control. In her previous life, until the emperor died, she discovered that none of the three thousand emperors in the harem were in love with her!
All he loves is the country!
The new emperor was weak and the empress dowager was powerful. In order to prevent himself from seizing power in the future, he issued an edict before his death, personally elevating the position of Empress Dowager Zhuang to share the harem with him.
After all, the emperor is Empress Dowager Zhuang’s biological son, and she will not watch her son being suppressed by her.
Although she had a close relationship with the emperor and Empress Dowager Zhuang at that time, she had experienced so many things that she had to be cautious and think twice even about her parents and relatives.
What's more, they are outsiders with no blood relationship?
She burned the imperial edict in front of Empress Dowager Zhuang. She lied to her - it was the imperial edict from the late emperor to prevent her mother from interfering in politics and to bury her alive with him.
She believed it.
Who knew that the devil would always be one step ahead of the good? In the end, I was not vigilant enough and fell victim to the mother and son.
Now, she never will again!
"When the Marquis comes back in the evening, please help the two concubines. Concubine Fang's place is too far away. The Marquis is working hard outside, so there is no need for him to walk so far." Shen Ruoyan spoke softly, his eyes filled with coldness.
"Tell the servants leading the way to be more careful and not to accidentally pass by other concubines' courtyards, so that the Marquis doesn't have to run back and forth."
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